The Anime Blu-ray Video Quality Thread

[The Collector FX]

So I guess Cyber City Oedo 808 is an SD upscale, at least that's what people are saying on Amazon and Twitter. I thought it was supposed to be a new remaster? I swore I read somewhere it was...

[Tylerfan]

Black Butler Blu-ray mega review:
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Black...lu-ray/264419/

[professorwho]

-Tons of color banding and poor compression all around

[Show spoiler]

Not worthy of a 9/10 score in my eyes. Some of it is source oriented, most likely, but regardless, I wasn't even looking for banding specifically, but there's a lot of it.

[Dante20161]

No collector alltheanime said it's a restored upscale not a new remaster, that is why the picture quality isn't that great

[Mangaranga]

Originally Posted by professorwho

-Tons of color banding and poor compression all around

[Show spoiler]

Not worthy of a 9/10 score in my eyes. Some of it is source oriented, most likely, but regardless, I wasn't even looking for banding specifically, but there's a lot of it.

I've been watching Black Clover for the last few days via the BD and I don't really have any issues with it. There's some occasional moments with some really obvious source banding, but generally speaking it's been less of an issue in later episodes. Can't say I've noticed any issues with compression either, and I assume you're looking at lossy JPEG captures. Most episodes are encoded at 30-35mbps.

[The Collector FX]

Originally Posted by Dante20161

No collector alltheanime said it's a restored upscale not a new remaster, that is why the picture quality isn't that great

All The Anime's official website...

screenshot on pc

[HyugaKojiro]

Looking to get Pet Shop of Horrors and was wondering if anyone knows what the best version is to get in terms of picture quality between the Urban Vision DVD, Sentai DVD and Sentai SDBD. Any help would be appreciated.

[BigOnAnime]

I've got only the Sentai Selects DVD, but it re-uses the Urban Vision masters, like it re-uses their credit rolls (which appear on only 2 of the 4 episodes, a carryover from the VHS releases I'm assuming), though it has the black screen Sentai credit roll too. Worth noting the Sentai releases are missing extras from the Urban Vision DVD.

[Member-571539]

https://blog.alltheanime.com/violet-...elease-update/

VIOLET EVERGARDEN HOME VIDEO RELEASE UPDATE

We paused our release to enquire with a specialist authoring house to look at the video materials and see if we can improve them. The answer is yes!

This means all four discs will be getting reauthored from the ground up.

In terms of a time frame for this to be completed, we are currently estimating this process to be completed and the product to be released come April 2021.

Anime Limited remains committed to delivering the best possible edition on first release we can, which is why we’re delaying it not just shipping then offering a replacement scheme.

We thank you for your understanding and patience on this. We know a lot of you are excited to have our release of Violet Evergarden in your collection. It will be worth the wait, and we can’t excited for you to have the best experience possible with this.

[Dante20161]

Collector this is the twitter link saying it was a restored upscale of cyber city

https://twitter.com/AllTheAnime/stat...46581182443520

If you need to check go to their twitter page and go to 18th January for the date and that is where it will be

[Mangaranga]

Originally Posted by BigOnAnime

He didn't have caps of FUNimation's BD as he never bought it. He was comparing screenshots with Sensuifu's of the FUNimation BD which can't be viewed anymore because they were uploaded to ImageShack which purged all images that were uploaded by free users 5 years ago. If anyone has the FUNimation BD, it'd be nice if they could put up comparison images so people can see how much of a difference there was between an upscale of a DVD release and an HD-native release.

Here's a couple I tried to match to some of the shots. The framing seems to be slightly different though.

[ryayan855]

Originally Posted by professorwho

-Tons of color banding and poor compression all around

[Show spoiler]

Not worthy of a 9/10 score in my eyes. Some of it is source oriented, most likely, but regardless, I wasn't even looking for banding specifically, but there's a lot of it.

Sorry if I'm sounding dumb, but can you explain to me what banding is? I don't seem to understand the issue with the picture quality.

[jsevakis]

"Remaster" is a very vague term. It literally just means "made a new master". It does not mean "made a new transfer from film" or anything like that. When a publisher goes to that extreme they'll usually call it by saying that specifically.

[kk1]

Originally Posted by ryayan855

Sorry if I'm sounding dumb, but can you explain to me what banding is? I don't seem to understand the issue with the picture quality.

There are separate "bands" of color instead of a smooth transition between them.

[BigOnAnime]

And here's some examples of banding on North American releases. It's unfortunately rather common, especially with streaming. It often can be a source issue, but if you don't know what you're doing, you can make it worse.

-Girls' Last Tour (streaming)
-Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (streaming)
-Kamisama Kiss 2 (streaming; the Blu-rays unfortunately have the same amount of banding as the streams which are so bad you can see banding in bright scenes)
-Serial Experiments Lain
-Shakugan no Shana (the smeariness due to the DNR and sharpening annoys me way more tbh)
-Utawarerumono: The False Faces (streaming)

[ryayan855]

Originally Posted by kk1

There are separate "bands" of color instead of a smooth transition between them.

If that's the case, then I'm pretty sure I saw some heaving banding from the Peacemaker Kurogane DVDs unless that's inherent to the source.

[The Collector FX]

I see banding and artifacts in streaming movies/tv shows all the time when ever there's a dark scene. Annoys the shit out of me.

[SeaFox]

Originally Posted by kk1

There are separate "bands" of color instead of a smooth transition between them.

I'm really having trouble agreeing with this image. It feels wrong on the labels due to it using only one color channel -- red.

24-bit color is 8 bits per channel of red / green / blue. In an image like those above the "24-bit gradient" could be done in only 8-bits of color space because it's monochrome. So we get 256 levels of red to draw with. Not six, like the "8-bit image" shows.

[NLScavenger]

Cyber City Oedo 808 - Anime Limited UK BD vs MC Entertainment RU DVD

We've seen some really poor BDs in this thread, but this one just takes the cake. We were told before the release date that this was going to be an upscale and that we had to temper our expectations, but never did I expect that they were going to "remaster" DVD MPEG-2 encodes:





This is perhaps the closest thing you can get to the early 2000s DivX/XviD DVD-rip experience on Blu-ray.

Anime Limited UK BD


MC Entertainment DVD


BDInfo

Disc Title: Cyber City Oedo 808
Disc Label: CYBER CITY OEDO 808
Disc Size: 30,454,761,098 bytes
Protection: AACS
Playlist: 00000.MPLS
Size: 22,168,680,768 bytes
Length: 2:09:02.818
Total Bitrate: 22.91 Mbps
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 17823 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz /   813 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz /   256 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz /  1121 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz /   256 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: Japanese / DTS-HD Master Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz /  1557 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz /   256 kbps / 24-bit)
* Audio: English / Dolby Digital Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz /   256 kbps / DN -31dB
Subtitle: English / 3.212 kbps
Subtitle: English / 8.423 kbps
Subtitle: English / 25.588 kbps
* Subtitle: English / 23.733 kbps

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Is this the MC DVD that's being compared? I'd like to own this and I'm sure as hell not going with the BD.